Mickleton, Gloucestershire

Description
Mickleton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 2 miles W of the boundary with Warwickshire, 3 miles N of Chipping Campden, 3 E of Honeybourne, and 3 S of Long Marston station on the G.W.R., and 7 WNW of Shipston-on-Stour, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Moreton-in-Marsh. The parish contains also the hamlets of Clopton and Hidcote Bartrim. Acreage, 2600 ; population of the civil parish, 600; of the ecclesiastical, 720. The manor belongs to the Graves family. Kiftsgate Court was erected in 1879. The old manor house is still occupied. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £158 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Early English, partly Decorated, and partly Pointed; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire, and contains monuments to the Fisher and the Graves families. It was restored in 1870. In the churchyard is a crucifix of the 12th century. Graves, the author of the " Spiritual Quixote," and Keck, a lord commissioner of the Great Seal in 1688, were natives.